Flavor of the week #41

Squarepusher
www.myspace.com/doyouknowsquarepusher
www.squarepusher.net
http://warp.net/records/squarepusher
www.myspace.com/thomasjenkinson  
Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator
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( ;D --> This is by far the most accessible record Squarepusher (aka Tom Jenkinson) has ever made. This was not the original intent, but the result is clear. This record will change the way people view Squarepusher. Having been known as a leader and innovator in Drum 'n Bass and various forms of up tempo electronic music for 15 years, Jenkinson was always able to push the boundaries of the genre, but on ''Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator'', he is pushing so far beyond his previous releases it is easy to hear why it might take a few listens to register that this is indeed a Squarepusher record. Vocals? R&B rhythms? Heavy synths? These and other un-Squarepusher like elements form what could even be described as 'baby makin' music'. Jenkinson's vast knowledge of rhythm and harmony help to make these songs much more than nu-soul R&B, they are truly an entity unto themselves.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/11/flavor-of-week-46.html


The Orb
www.myspace.com/orbisms
( ;D --> The Orb are an English electronic music group known for spawning the genre of ambient house. Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and KLF member Jimmy Cauty, The Orb began as ambient and dub DJs in London. Their early performances were inspired by ambient and electronic artists of the 1970s and 1980s, most notably Brian Eno and Kraftwerk.)
Metallic Spheres
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Martin Grech
www.myspace.com/meatsuitmartingrech
( ;D --> Grech's music is a dark, disorientating landscape, as informed by surrealist artists H.R. Giger and Joel Peter Witkin as Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead.)
Open Heart Zoo
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Unholy
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Open Heart Zoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xja7UXSZmps


Baby Fox
www.babyfox.biz
www.myspace.com/alfuk
www.discogs.com/artist/Baby+Fox
( ;D --> The dub-blues trio Baby Fox formed in the late '80s around vocalist Christine Leach plus producers Alex Gray and Dwight Clarke. Influenced by Burt Bacharach, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Gang Starr, among others.)
Dum Dum Baby
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( ;D --> Baby Fox's "Dum Dum Baby" is a showpiece of dark, dense, trippy beats and melodies, perfectly offset by the female lead singer's crooning and the occasionally growled/rapped male vocals providing counterpoint.)
Chillout Basscapes Vol. 1
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Normal Family
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Satanicpornocultshop
www.myspace.com/satanicpornocultshop
( ;D --> A multiplicity of sound layers pierced by one single beat. That would be a simple definition to describe the complexity but straightforwardness of the music from this band from Osaka. However, there is no special Japanese flavor here, and it would be best if we could please once and for all retire these tired clich?s. Satanicpornocultshop is global, linked with their fellow collagists, plagiarists and other plunderphonist counterparts (Kurt Schwitters, Negativland, John Oswald, etc.)
Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos
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CustomDRdestroyaa
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCSxotHJ8w 

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #40

Chris Carter
www.myspace.com/chris_carter_/
www.chriscarter.co.uk
( ;D --> Chris Carter sure has turned his childhood hobby into a career. Born in Islington, London, England on January 28, 1953, Carter became enchanted with high-tech equipment early in his youth. When he was only a boy, Carter spent hours playing with a tape deck; his father would record family conversations and add sound effects to them, even changing speeds. At the age of 13, Carter fell in love with mixing electronic sounds. Carter joined a garage band called the Dragsters in 1967. A year later, Carter took drugs and saw Pink Floyd perform at a dive in North London. The group's visual presentation and acid-damaged pop left Carter spellbound. Inspired, Carter formed Orpheus Lites with his friend Chris Panayiotou, providing local acts with Pink Floyd-ish psychedelic light shows. Orpheus Lites eventually turned into an integral part of their biggest client, the outfit Willa. Carter joined Willa as a keyboardist, but he left in 1974. In 1975, Carter made his solo debut, performing at Thurrock Technical College in England as Waveforms, utilizing synthesizers and keyboards. He then met future bandmates Genesis P-Orridge (vocals) and Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitar), both of whom were in COUM Transmissions, a performance art ensemble that disgusted and disturbed English audiences by torturing their g*****ls and licking their vomit on-stage. With the addition of Carter, COUM Transmissions evolved into industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. In 1980, Carter released his first album, The Space Between. Throbbing Gristle broke up a year later, and Carter started collaborating with Fanni Tutti as Chris & Cosey and Creative Technology Insitute, otherwise known as CTI. They also created their own record label, Conspiracy International. Carter entered the journalism field in the '90s, writing music reviews; he also designed album covers with Fanni Tutti and remixed two songs from Erasure.)
The Spaces Between remastered
www.kompakt.fm/releases/the_spaces_between
( ;D --> Originally recorded between 1974 and 1978 at Industrial Records studio in London 'The Space Between' album was first released as a 90 minute cassette in 1980 on Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records label. It wasn't until 1991 that it was again released by Mute Records on CD. Although tracks from 'The Space Between' have appeared on numerous compilations since its release, the album has never been available on vinyl until now. This new vinyl edition on Optimo Music, now retitled 'The Spaces Between', doesn't include all the tracks of the original album but has been enhanced and remastered from the original two-track master tapes and has new cover artwork especially for this release.)
Small Moon
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Disobedient
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Electronic Ambient Remixes One
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The Spaces Between (original release)
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CTI - Core - A Conspiracy International Project
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( ;D --> Each track was a joint project between Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti, together with colaborators; Joe Potts, John Duncan, Monte Cazazza, Robert Wyatt, Lustmord and Boyd Rice. Sounds were mailed or brought to Studio 47 where they were manipulated, processed, composed and mixed with the full collaboration of those involved.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/10/flavor-of-week-42.html
And:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/07/flavor-of-week-28.html
Throbbing Gristle/Chris & Cosey clip from Synth Britannia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpH-8Exq5oE


Brian Eno
http://brian-eno.net
www.enoweb.co.uk
www.myspace.com/enobrian  
www.myspace.com/ambientlegend  
( ;D --> The longest and poshest name in music - Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno - is often just abbreviated to just 'Eno', and belongs to a man with an incredible record of innovation as a musician. A multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer, music theorist and producer, he has been involved in the best work of several prominent artists, as well as pioneering ambient music with his own solo work.)
Small Craft On A Milk Sea
http://enoshop.co.uk/
Taste:
www.brian-eno.net/#audio-stream
Another Green World
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David Byrne & Brian Eno
www.everythingthathappens.com/
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
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Brian Eno & John Cale
Wrong Way Up
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( ;D --> Recorded at Brian's Wilderness studios, Eno comes close to the style of Another Green World. Cale is as catchy as he's been since Honi Soit. The result is one of the best albums either one has ever made.)


Feindflug
www.myspace.com/feindflug
www.feindflug.info
( ;D --> Feindflug is a controversial German aggrotech band founded in 1995. Translated, the name means "attack-raid" or literally "foe-flight" ("flight against the enemy"); it corresponds in military use to the French/English word "sortie".)
Im Visier
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Feindflug
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Jesus Antichristus (Feindflug Remix)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPinZirnN8&feature=related


Govinda
www.myspace.com/govindamusic
www.govindamusic.com
( ;D --> Govinda fuses beautifully spooky melodies inspired from across the planet with sexy beats and crunchy, ambient atmosphere. Govinda has played with Thievery Corporation, DJ Spooky and Cheb I Sabbah and been featured in compilations such as Buddha Bar II, Asian Travels II, and Nirvana Lounge.)
Amethyst Noise
http://govinda.bandcamp.com/album/amethyst-noise
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/02/flavor-of-week-07.html


Switchblade Symphony
www.myspace.com/30511393 
( ;D --> Switchblade Symphony was a San Francisco, United States–based band which was formed in 1989 by composer Susan Wallace and vocalist Tina Root. They released their first album in 1995 on the Cleopatra Records label. They also had two live guitarists, first Robin Jacobs (who later joined Razor Skyline) and then George Earth, and two live drummers, first Eric Gebow (now with Blue Man Group) and then Scott van Shoick.
Switchblade Symphony's music combined orchestral sounds with heavy synth sequences and ethereal vocals to create a highly original sound resembling The Flower Duet sung over a twisted union of classical music and gothic rock. The band's name refers to this union, the result of cutting up elements of classical music to mix them with harder sounds. Though this sound is uncommon, it might be compared with Rhea's Obsession, Siouxsie Cindergarden, The Machine in the Garden and Dead Can Dance.
Switchblade Symphony disbanded in November 1999. Subsequently, Tina Root started Tre Lux. In 2008 Tina Root and George Earth formed SmallHalo. Small Halo is based out of L.A. and are working on an upcoming EP.)
Serpentine Gallery
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Clown
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNQ58zV-WkI&feature=related

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #39

Unter Null
www.myspace.com/unternull  
( ;D --> The sole creation of Erica Dunham, material began to be written under the moniker of “Unter Null” in the year 1998 when she was 17. After years of classical piano training, as well as cello and guitar, the foray into electronic music began. Unter Null started off as a powernoise project highly influenced by other artists back in the day such as Noisex, Converter, P.A.L., and a lot of the Ant-Zen/Hands roster.)
Moving On
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The Failure Epiphany (Unter Null)
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Stray (Erica Dunham)
www.myspace.com/stray23
www.ericadunham.com
( ;D --> Anyone who is familiar with the work of Erica Dunham and her contributions to the industrial scene with Unter Null, you would know that she also has another project called Stray. Stray showcases a different side to Erica Dunham. The music is similiar to Delerium but not so poppy.)
Abuse by Proxy
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Devalued & Discarded
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Post Human
www.myspace.com/posthumanmusic
( ;D --> Into their tenth year as an act, cousins Richard Bevan and Joshu Doherty, Posthuman are here on own-label, Balkan Vinyl for another voyage into the heart of electronic darkness. Dropping across styles as diverse as post-rock, slamming techno, vintage Detroit electro, fiery dubstep and contorted IDM trickery. Massive tip for followers of the Braindance axis, B12, Kirk Degiorgio, Plaid, Seed Records.)
Syn Emergence
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Syn Emergence - Album Preview
http://soundcloud.com/posthuman/posthuman-syn-emergence-album-preview


Ben Klock
www.myspace.com/benklock
( ;D --> Ben Klock is a German techno DJ and producer who has released on labels such as BPitch Control, Ostgut Ton. He runs his own label Klockworks and often spins at the Berghain in Berlin.)
Berghain 4
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/05/flavor-of-week-19.html


IAMX
www.myspace.com/IAMX
www.iamx.co.uk
( ;D --> IAMX is the solo musical project of Chris Corner. The lyrics are primarily concerned with subjects such as sex, death, narcotic intoxication, bisexuality, decadence, religion, alienation and allusions to politics. Corner currently lives in Berlin, where he has found "the spirit to care less about the music industry and take an independent route.")
Dogmatic Infidel Comedown Ok
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-15.html


Mark Ronson & The Business Intl
www.myspace.com/markronson
www.markronson.co.uk
( ;D --> Mark Daniel Ronson is an English guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. Ronson is releasing 'Record Collection' on September 27 under the moniker Mark Ronson And The Business Intl. It features collaborations with The Zutons' Dave McCabe, Kaiser Chiefs' Nick Hodgson, Boy George and The Drums' Jonathan Pierce among others.)
Record Collection
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Bang bang bang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzE5dS6fnFk

Regards from South of France :)
Over And Out

Flavor of the week #38

Code 64
www.myspace.com/code64
www.code64.se
( ;D --> Code 64 are an electronic music band from Lysekil, Sweden formed in 2000 by the three teenagers Christian Espeland, Hasse Mattsson, and Henrik Piehl. Code 64 is perhaps one of the most under-recognized EBM / Synthpop band around. While still relatively underground, these guys are slowly growing a cult following among the people that have discovered their music.)
Trialogue
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Nightswimmer
www.myspace.com/thenightswimmer
http://nightswimmer.com
( ;D --> Strange experimental sounds comforted by warm brooding tones & Prodding Beats give way to jazz toned ambient minimalism delayed trombone hues and subtle atmospheres.)
?and a Crescent Half Lit the Sky
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Can The Mechanical Be Beautiful
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Flying Lotus
www.myspace.com/flyinglotus  
Pattern & Grid World
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( ;D --> 2010 EP release from producer/musician Steven Ellison (AKA Flying Lotus). While the album Cosmogramma was high in concept and wide in musical collaboration, Pattern + Grid World pulls the focus back to Steven Ellison and his machines. These machines are speaking from the go, as "Clay" introduces itself in a fog of synth and vocoder and gives way to one of the many surprises here, the schizophrenic ping-ponging electro of "Kill Your Co-Workers". Drenched in alternating melodies, it's a synthetic counterpart to the grand string and harp arrangements of Cosmogramma, making acclaimed illustrator Theo Ellsworth's subtly psychedelic cover image of vision-through-noise all the more intimate.)
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/front-line-assembly-www.html


Global Communication
www.myspace.com/officialglobalcommunication  
( ;D --> Global Communication is an electronic music act, composed of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard. Their debut LP, 76:14 is one of the most acclaimed albums from the ambient music genre and from 1990s electronic music in general.
Beyond their work as Global Communication, they have also recorded as Jedi Knights, Secret Ingredients, The Chameleon, and Link & E621; remixed under the moniker Reload (including a 1993 remix of "On" by Aphex Twin); and founded the Evolution Records and Universal Language Productions labels. Pritchard has also recorded as Link, Harmonic 313, Troubleman, NY Connection, William Parrott, and Roberto Edwardo Turner (The Returner). His other collaborative efforts include Harmonic 33 and Use of Weapons with Dave Brinkworth, Series 7 with Stephen Horne, Shaft with Adrian Hughes, Vertigo with Danny Breaks, The 28 East Boyz with Kevin Hann, Chaos & Julia Set with Dominic Fripp, Mystic Institute with Paul Kent, and Pulusha with Kirsty Hawkshaw.
Middleton has also recorded as Cosmos, AMBA, The Modwheel, The Rebus Project, Schizophrenia, E621, and Spiritcatcher. He has worked collaboratively with Matthew Herbert and Mark Darby, releasing one eponymous EP as Fog City. As Schizophrenia Middleton collaborated with Aphex Twin on one track from the Analogue Bubblebath EP. He is currently releasing records eponymously, and has released multiple DJ Mix Compilations.)
( ;D --> 15 years later they are gettin' back together. Catch up on classic chilled remixes with this mix by Hayhook.)
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Amphetamine Virus
www.myspace.com/amphetaminevirus  
( ;D --> Amphetamine Virus is the Breakcore/Darkstep project of MDS.)
The Monoxide Sessions
http://amphetaminevirus.bandcamp.com/album/the-monoxide-sessions

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #37

Royksopp
www.myspace.com/royksopp  
http://royksopp.com
( ;D --> Named after a kind of fungi, Röyksopp was formed in 1998 by Norwegians Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge who delivered a new kind of electronica with their debut album Melody A.M. in 2001.
The sound was a big hit with the advertising world and tracks were co-opted for a variety of products including a Apple, an insurance group and broadcasters in the US and the UK.
With their taste for experimentation extending to their videos, they won an MTV Europe award for "Remind Me" from their second album The Understanding.
The band's skills as producers have been utilized with remixes for Beck, Coldplay and Peter Gabriel and they were invited to do a compilation album for the Back To Mine series in 2006.)
Senior
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( ;D --> An introduction to Senior by the band: Junior and Senior have a kinship, in that they represent Röyksopp’s two very different artistic expressions. Junior – with emphasis on vocals, accessible melodies and harmonies, has the energy, the inquisitive temper and confident “hey-ho, let’s go!”-attitude of youth, whereas Senior is the introverted, dwelling and sometimes graceful counterpart – brimfull with dark secrets and distorted memories, insisting “I’m old, I’ve got experince…”. Senior is furthermore an album about age, horses and being subdued – with devils breathing down your neck. Senior was written as a complete set of tracks, each designated to take a specific part in the bigger piece. All individual tracks have been made with the intent of coexisting with the other tracks on the album. Each track is equally as important as its predecessor and successor. We feel that none of the tracks should be regarded outside of this context, ie. separated from the rest of the album. Quite a brave/stupid thing to do in this day & age of iPods and cherrypicking, one might suggest. We couldn’t agree more – hell that’s even probably why we did it.)
The Drug
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/8357-royksopp-the-drug-mute
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/03/flavor-of-week-11.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/05/flavor-of-week-22.html


Trakktor
www.myspace.com/trakktor
http://trakktor.se
( ;D --> Swedish Dark Electro/Aggrotech/Techno from "KarlsWoods")
Force Majeure
http://www.trakktor.se/force.html
Promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkFGDilAG8&feature=player_embedded#!
(Smör.. -eller hur Pierre ;))


Hurts
www.informationhurts.com
www.myspace.com/ithurts
( ;D --> Debute duo Adam Anderson and Theo Hutchcraft from Manchester delivers interesting a Neo-classical "Synth Sound alá Depeche Mode/elegant machinery.)
Happiness
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/flavor-of-week-25.html


The Residents
www.myspace.com/theresidents
www.residents.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents
( ;D --> Over the course of a recording career spanning several decades, the Residents remained a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions; cloaking their lives and music in a haze of willful obscurity, the band's members never identified themselves by name, always appearing in public in disguise -- usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks -- and refusing to grant media interviews. Drawing inspiration from the likes of fellow innovators including Harry Partch, Sun Ra, and Captain Beefheart, the Residents channelled the breadth of American music into their idiosyncratic, satiric vision, their mercurial blend of electronics, distortion, avant-jazz, classical symphonies and gratingly nasal vocals reinterpreting everyone from John Philip Sousa to James Brown while simultaneously expanding the boundaries of theatrical performance and multimedia interaction.)
Ten Little Piggies
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( ;D --> The Residents have been on quite a creative streak in the first decade of the new millennium, with a bunch of new albums, a pretty extensive reissue campaign, and retrospectives like the Kettles of Fish compilation. And judging from the "futurist compilation" Ten Little Piggies, they aren't slowing down at all. The "Ten Little Piggies" referred to are actually ten different projects that may or may not be completed and/or released (actually, as of the release date in late 2009, a couple of the projects have been released as downloads only and The Ughs! received a physical release as well). It's quite a mix. Several of these projects revisit earlier ones, like the Tweedles and Voice of Midnight instrumentals, which are interesting because those albums were originally so driven by narrative that the music was almost secondary. Apparently, they're also working on a Duck Stab Re-Imagined album, represented here by an almost drum'n'bass-style &"Semolina" and a surprisingly dark take on &"Laughing Song," reduced almost entirely to percussion. There are a couple of soundtrack projects (Strange Culture and Haeckel's Tale) and a couple extensions of the Bunny Boy saga: &"Arkansas" and a live album from the Bunny Boy tour. Perhaps the two best tracks come from the Talking Light project, described as "interpretive storytelling with an interactive electronic score"..."based on a mix of improvisation and scoring." They're both creepy and hilarious in that special Residents way. Will all these projects see the full light of day? Who knows. But Ten Little Piggies is further proof (if you needed any) that the Residents are certainly among the most restlessly creative and productive groups in the history of mankind.)
Animal Lover
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Demons Dance Alone
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/12/flavor-of-week-50.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/flavor-of-week-47.html
( ;( --> RalphAmerica Godby?!)
http://www.ralphamerica.com/
www.residents.com/historical/page85/page90/page91/page91.html
http://residents.com/ralph


Neon Indian
www.myspace.com/neonindian 
( ;D --> Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, the 21-year-old synth-wizard who first created waves as VEGA. After writing a batch of off-the-cuff recordings that weren’t quite right as VEGA songs, Palomo released them as Neon Indian and what started as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold has since gone on to define a genre.)
Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms Possessed (Dig)
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Psychic Chasms
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Psychic chasms Anoraak-remix
http://soundcloud.com/anoraak/neon-indian-o-psychic-chasms-anoraak-remix

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #36

Android Lust
www.androidlust.com
( ;D --> Android Lust is the industrial solo project of Shikhee, that combines elements of rock, industrial, gothic and classical styles into a blend of music that she describes as "electronic and dark.)
http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=45009_0_2_0_C
Human Animal
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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
www.omd.uk.com
( ;D --> Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark were an English synth-pop group who were formed in the late 70s by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys. They enjoyed several Top Ten singles at the turn of the decade, like "Enola Gay" etc.)
History of Modern
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( ;D --> One of the reasons Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have called their brand new album,their eleventh,'History of Modern' is because they are acutely aware of what it is they're doing with this release. On paper, this is the UK synth-pop pioneers' first new material since 1996, but in spirit,it has more in common with the group's early '80s heyday when their hits lit up the charts and set the agenda for a bold new movement in British electronic music. Fast forward 30 years to the reunited OMD of 2010 and it's clear that that sense of mischief and youthful idealism still fuels the group.)
http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=45006_0_2_0_C


White Moth
www.myspace.com/whitemmmoth
( ;D --> Pyramids frontman R. Loren has launched a new project, White Moth. The project will be releasing their debut self-titled release this October on Angel Oven Records. The new project features R. Loren, Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot), Dälek, Lydia Lunch, and members of Krallice, Frodus, Zs, Asunder, and more. Now premiering is the first track from the record, entitled "You Texas, Dark Star".)
Texas dark star
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Fake Blood
www.myspace.com/welovefakeblood 
( ;D --> Fake Blood is an alias used by DJ Touché, also half of The Black Ghosts (which Touché has remixed under the Fake Blood alias). He has done remixes for Dan Le Sac, Armand van Helden, The Count & Sinden, UNKLE, Underworld and others.)
Fix Your Accent
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Mars Remixes
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Extrawelt
www.myspace.com/extrawelt
( ;D --> The future of powerful, breathtaking electronic music by Extrawelt (Arne Schaffhausen & Wayan Raabe). Their sound incorporates minimal, progressive and techno, aimed squarely at blowing holes in sound systems. With more than 10 Original Productions and dozens of remixes, Extrawelts’ tank-like driving bass lines, powerful drum beats and blend of menacing, droning, echoing synths are impressing everyone from your 8 year old sister to some of the most prolific DJs in the world including Sasha, John Digweed, James Holden and Sven Vath. Early on Extrawelt’s productions quickly caught the ear of James Holden, who signed their first track to his own Border Community Label. James gave the track a working title “soopertrack” which stuck, and soon became a manifesto for their music, producing and releasing dance floor bomb after bomb, through labels including the Iconic Cocoon label, Traum, Great Stuff and Giant Wheel.)
Schone Neue
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Lost In Willaura

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvWnL4XuHI&feature=fvw 

Over And Out

Flavor of the week #35

Alexander Kowalski
www.myspace.com/alexanderkowalski
www.alexanderkowalski.com
( ;D --> Kowalski elegantly fuses elements from classic Detroit and historical Berlin techno sound. His affection for sophisticated bass lines, deep beats and challenging arrangements breathes new life into Techno. He knows perfectly how to program his tracks to sound straight, deep, housy, dubby or funky.)
Puesta de Sol
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The Heat Of The Night
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The Lost Chamber - Alexander Kowalski
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3pjYiLOmrU&feature=related
Start Chasing - Alexander Kowalski (extrawelt remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SeWJNTGRRE&feature=related 
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2007/09/ricardo-villalobos-www.html

Conforce
www.myspace.com/conforce
( ;D --> Conforce is the moniker of Boris Bunnik from The Island of Terschelling. Nowadays he lives in the city of Leeuwarden. He developed his passion for electronic music around the age of 10. His father owned a large collection of usual and unusual instruments like the bagpipe, accordion, guitar, piano and harmonica's. Somehow this must have contained him with some musical interest. Michael Jackson also got airplay in his living room. But it was in a summer that his father who is also working as a forester was on a patrol in the eastern part of the island. He found a black colored tape who someone must have lost during a walk. When he took it home, he gave it to his son with the words “perhaps you could do something with it”. Not much later he bought his first taperecorder. The next thing he did was to put the tape in and take a listen. Soon there were all kinds of weird and freaky noises coming out. It attacked him. “What was this kind of sh*t?” he wondered. After that listen he did put it away in the closet - only for a very short while. He realised that this must have been the first serious house music he had been listening to. On the tape was Detroit orientated techno from producers like Orlando Voorn, Speedy J, Joey Beltram and Carl Craig who worked with the characteristic hardware equipment.)
Grace
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( ;D --> It's hard to believe that Grace is Conforce's debut release for Delsin. Like that label's output, Boris Bunnik's work typifies an open-ended approach to music-making, which integrates techniques from the first wave of Dutch techno producers mixed with other influences.)


SAM
www.myspace.com/projectsam
( ;D --> Founded by the highly explosive duo Joel Meyer and Daniel Meyer, the industrial project SAM has so far released two highly successful albums in 2006 and 2008 and have also established a reputation as an excellent live act.)
Brainwasher
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Portico Quartet
www.myspace.com/porticoquartet  
http://porticoquartet.com
( ;D --> The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them from dozens of other Hackney hopefuls is the way they sound - a fresh, unclichéd resynthesis and reinvention of music that's both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future. With largely acoustic resources - percussion, bass and wind instruments - they have conjured and refined a group signature that's immediately recognisable. Thanks to the use of the hang, a tuned percussion instrument bought on impulse at a music festival, they have a sound that is instantly attractive, yet uncompromisingly individual, and it's this, combined with the cheerful eloquence of their performances, that has brought Portico Quartet a long way in a short time.)
Isla
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Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub
www.myspace.com/phillipboaandthevoodooclub
www.phillipboa.com
( ;D --> In 1985, Phillip Boa (born Ernst Ulrich Figgen) founded the Independent band Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub. With their album Hair and the single Container Love, they experienced a commercial breakthrough and international recognition in 1989. Boa's music is influenced by British punk rock and New Wave, its style swings between pop and avantgarde. A continuous charasteric are the catchy and melodic choruses, interrupted or alienated by atmospheric shifts. Thereby the voice of band member Pia Lund and Boa's own throaty singing contrast diametrically.
Live! Exile on Valetta Street
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And Then She Kissed Her
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Kant Kino
www.myspace.com/kantkino08
( ;D --> Kant Kino was started late 2008 for playing at a free slot at Elektrostat 2008 (major underground festival in Norway celebrating 10 years - this year with Apoptygma Berzerk and Front for 242 and many others). Kant Kino consist of band members active in Industrial Heads, Skin Disease and The Film Inside. KANT KINO inject the distorted force of the 90's dark elektro genre into their strong 80's EBM roots to render dark body music with distorted vocals and a strong sense for melody. Have you ever dared to have the forbidden thought of hearing a fresh combination of HOCICO or WUMPSCUT’s distorted darkness with the melodic EBM side of classic acts like NITZER EBB or LEAETHER STRIP? Expect EBM with the Norwegian seal of quality!)
We Are Kant Kino - You Are Too
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http://open.spotify.com/album/7rjN1Nj6CQAqI1ik6PnVuC
We Are Kant Kino - You Are Not

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CombiChrist
www.myspace.com/combichrist  
www.combichrist.com  
Never Surrender
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( ;D --> After one and a half years of continuous touring activities (also supporting German legends Rammstein along the way), one of the most influential Electro-Industrial-acts of our time returns with a bang: Combichrist! The red hot new single “Never Surrender” is a raw and dry beat-attack that discharges into an infernal mayhem of a chorus. With this aggressive groove-monster, Andy LaPlegua and band are bound to take the alternative dance floors around the world by storm, making the single a formidable appetizer for the new album “Making Monsters”, scheduled for release on August 27th, 2010. Remixes from IAMX, Terence Fixmer and Melt round off this relentless and excellent club package.)
Making monsters
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2010/04/front-line-assembly-www.html
and:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/flavor-of-week-17.html


Kiew
www.myspace.com/kiew
www.kiew.org
( ;D --> KiEw is a German electro-industrial project founded in late 1990 by Andreas "Thedi" Thedens.)
Mental [per]mutation
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( ;D --> Welcome to a new audio therapy in the Electro-madhouse! On “mental [per]mutation”, our favourite patients dive deeper into the everyday life of the institution, unearthing a sonic roller coaster ride of thudding mutated dance-floor-Industrial hybrids (“Käferfrühstück”, “Mister 29” and many more) , acoustic experiments, as well as instrumentals with a soundtrack-like feel (the “Retrograd”-series.) During the course of the album, the listener will gain deep insights into psychoacoustic excerpts from the patients’ files, strange new forms of therapy and numerous soliloquies, often between multiple personalities. “mental [per]mutation“ includes a second disc on which special cases from outside the institution (among them the NYC-Techno-legend Lenny Dee) have gained access to KiEw’s sound files to inject them with their very own madness. Welcome to Disco Dementia! Only one question remains: are the musicians mad or is it the listener?)


Holy Fuck
www.myspace.com/holyfuck
Latin
( ;D --> An interesting fact is that they don't use computers to produce the music. Instead, they use live drums and bass, as well as a myriad of other electric devices (toy keyboards, guitar effects pedals, and notably a 35mm film synchronizer). It's said that they also don't rehearse, which is pretty mind-blowing after listening to the tight jams on this album.)
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Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/flavor-of-week-7.html


Faithless
www.myspace.com/faithless
www.faithless.co.uk
( ;D --> Faithless is "unique among dance acts in excelling at both high-octane club tracks and fully-rounded, satisfying eclectic albums," according to Q magazine. The London-based trio has sold more than three million albums—including Reverence, Sunday 8pm, and Outrospective—and four million singles worldwide with hits such as "Salva Mea," "Insomnia," "God Is a Deejay," and "We Come 1.")
The Dance
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( ;D --> 2010 release from the iconic British Electronic act. The Dance sees Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo reach the bar that their back-cat sets so high, and Maxi reckons it's 'chock-a-block with dance tunes which we hope will be the soundtrack to many Saturday nights for a while to come.)
Not Going Home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmtqbNuqG4  

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Schwefelgelb
www.myspace.com/schwefelgelb
www.schwefelgelb.de
( ;D --> "Two handsome german boys" making in-your-face electro that's as much punk as it is pop. Call it the neu neue deutsche Welle. Melodys drill themselves inside the head, beats forge ahead as piercing vocals meet lovingly produced, minimalistic musical details. Though definitly influenced by 80's New Wave, NDW and Punk, SCHWEFELGELB transfer these old cliches into something very new via some razor-sharp progressive sounds)
Das Ende vom Kreis Release: 29.10.2010
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Alt und Neu
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Ich Hab Dich Gesehen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dk11mmcuX4&feature=related


Adolf Diguer
www.myspace.com/adolfdiguer
( ;D --> Initially influenced by groups like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, O.M.D, Front 242 … etc. His interest for the music of that epoch was leading him to realizing mixed tapes. Evolving the Electro and the Minimal influenced by Djs and such producers as Richie Hawtin, Michael Mayer, Miss Kittin, Dj Hell etc .. having like indexes someone of the stamps most important (Minus, Poker Flat, Bpitch, Get Physical ..). These styles allow him to realize meetings more electronic and to explore all his slopes, which they can include from Electro House, Minimal and up to the most pure Electro.)
Acoustic Drug
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Hocico
www.hocico.com
www.myspace.com/hocico
Dog Eat Dog
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( ;D --> A massive appetizer for the upcoming album “Tiempos De Furia!” Hocico will be touring in autumn!)
Blasphemies In The Unholy Land
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Disidencia Inquebrantable
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Dog eat dog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKPrxgROYE
Se also:
http://barlemusic.blogspot.com/2008/03/flavor-of-week-12.html


Vavinchi
www.myspace.com/vavinchi
( ;D --> Vladimir Vavilov started music carreer as a composer and sound producer and launched intrinsic projects "HOBOS" in Moscow presented like a symbiose between progressive techno house and electro tendencies.Vladimir is curently creating and advancing the new solo project "VAVINCHI DEEP HOUSE Trance.)
ROOFTOP 07.02.10 vavinchi DJ SET
http://soundcloud.com/vavinchi
Astronaut
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Naïve Custo
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Mick Chillage
www.myspace.com/mickchillage  
( ;D --> Mick Chillage is one half of Dublin based radio DJ's The Chillage Idiots who have been playing a wide range of music within the spectrum of electronica on Dublins XFM..Mick has been producing music since late 1996. His Influences are wide ranging from John Barry to Kraftwerk to Eno to Larry Heard & beyond so his productions cover a variety of genres, techno,house,electro, IDM, ambient, dub, minimal etc, sometimes fusing all these styles in to one track.)
Vaporized

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Tales from the Igloo
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Gregor Tresher
www.myspace.com/gregortresher
www.gregor-tresher.de
( ;D --> In the field of electronic music, Gregor Tresher is by no means a debutant. For more than ten years the thirty-four-year old DJ and producer from Frankfurt gathered merits modernizing the algorithms of electronic music. It has been his “Still EP“ in 2004 that upgraded him into the Champions League of European Techno producers. After many highlight releases like “Neon“, “Full Range Madness“, “The Wombat“ or “The Now People“ on labels like Intacto, Cocoon, Great Stuff or Rebel One, it was his eagerly-awaited debut album “A Thousand Nights“ that defined the state of the art in electronic dancemusic 2008, with its titletrack beeing the year´s best selling Techno song on Beatport.)
The Life Wire
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A Thousand Nights
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Still
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5OkpOeWvB4&feature=related
Black Rain (Gregor Tresher remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwUM-pk86c&feature=related
A Thousand Nights (Extrawelt Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnyqQ0e1wvo&feature=related


Hans Zimmer
www.hans-zimmer.com
( ;D --> If you have been to the cinema or watched a DVD in the last 20 years, it's likely you have heard a Hans Zimmer track. Born in Germany in 1957, the keyboard player and writer began his career in the early 1980's electronic bands Ultravox and The Buggles, and with an Italian new wave band Krisma. His real fame came from his film scores; his first big success was in 1988 with the music for the film Rain Man, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Since then the multi award-winning producer has an extensive list of credits that include The Lion King, Gladiator and The Da Vinci Code. As a tribute to his versatility, his most recent success is the "Spider Pig" tune from The Simpsons Movie.)
Inception [Soundtrack]
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Inception: Building the Dream (Time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfR44GxlCY&feature=player_embedded


Polarkreis 18
www.myspace.com/polarkreis18
www.polarkreis18.de
( ;D --> Polarkreis 18 is a German pop band from Dresden, Saxony. The bandmembers met at school where they formed the band Jack of all Trades in 1998. In 2004 they renamed their band Polarkreis 18. The musical style of the band can be described as pop, synthpop and indietronic. Their albums include: Polarkreis 18 and more recently The Colour Of Snow with the single "Allein Allein" (Alone Alone) which scored number one on the German Media Control Top100 Singles from 31 October 2008 to 4 December 2008.)
Colour of Snow
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Artesia

www.myspace.com/artesia1983
www.artesia-music.com
( ;D --> With ethereal female choirs and a celtic violonist, Artesia invent a fairyesque and dark atmosphere close to The Lords of the ring's original soundtrack. Artesia invites us in this land of mysteries & legends from the West of France.)
Llydaw
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Chants d'automne
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Hilvern
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Artesia - Invitation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3fPvK5WMaw&NR=1


Dark Matter :: Multiverse
www.multiverse-music.com
( ;D --> Multiverse Music have pulled together several of the best labels in dubstep and techno. The labels include Tectonic, Earwax, Caravan, Build and Kapsize, along with other currently dormant labels (Subtext, Vertical Sound etc) and between them they've helped define the sound of Bristol's bass music culture over the years. Multiverse Music have released a compilation to tie everything in together, it's called Dark Matter, which steers us from the early days of dubstep, with classics from Pinch, Skream and Loefah, to now, with the likes of Joker, 2562, Emptyset, Baobinga and even me (hello).)
You can have a quick preview here:
Dark Matter :: Multiverse 2004-2009
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http://soundcloud.com/multiverse/sets/multiverse-darkmatter

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